Category Archives: People

Heidegger and Cassirer

Posted on August 12, 2010 by stuartelden

An interesting looking book on Heidegger and Cassirer just out, beginning with their 1929 encounter in Davos, but it looks like it goes a way beyond this. Details here. Great cover photo too.

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Terms of Debate

Posted on August 12, 2010 by stuartelden

Speaking about Locke, and the way that in constructing his argument as a refutation of Filmer he was able to set the terms of debate in a way that favoured his position, but the general point is worth making: A … Continue reading →

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Zizek documentary film

Posted on August 12, 2010 by stuartelden

(from the Verso blog)

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Gratton on Heidegger, and the Beiträge

Posted on August 12, 2010 by stuartelden

Peter Gratton’s response to the Heidegger posts is thoughtful and balanced. He is surely right that any book on the 30s would have to deal with the Nazi question in a way that would dominate the rest of the story. … Continue reading →

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More on Heidegger in the 20s and 30s

Posted on August 11, 2010 by stuartelden

Graham responds to my earlier post on Heidegger here. I don’t think it’s as much of a disagreement as he thinks. Basically there seem to be three issues. – Graham wants a biography for that period, and says that the … Continue reading →

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Heidegger in the 1920s and 1930s

Posted on August 11, 2010 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has a post here about Heidegger’s Marburg years. He suggests that a biography just focusing on those years – 1923-1928 – would be fascinating for all sorts of reasons. The reasons are all good, although I’d suggest that the … Continue reading →

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Speaking of Leibniz…

Posted on August 11, 2010 by stuartelden

Good little story about him here.

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Gratton on sovereignty

Posted on August 11, 2010 by stuartelden

Peter Gratton replies to two of my recent posts here and here. Both replies have great titles. The first is a discussion of the canon. Peter writes  As someone who wrote an entire chapter on Boulainviller, I’m happy to change … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Gottfried Leibniz, Jean Bodin, John Locke, Michel Foucault, Peter Gratton, Territory, The Birth of Territory, Walter Ralegh | 3 Comments

Urbanomic

Posted on August 10, 2010 by stuartelden

Urbanomic, the publisher behind the Collapse journal, have updated their website. Among other things there are details of Collapse VII, you can download the whole of Collapse I (including an interview with Badiou), and details of an event at the … Continue reading →

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Reading texts, the canon, and historical access

Posted on August 9, 2010 by stuartelden

Having been away for the weekend I feel like the blog debate that has been going on about Derrida and realism has largely passed me by. That’s fine, in a sense, because it’s not something I’m especially concerned with. (You … Continue reading →

Posted in Alain Badiou, Gottfried Leibniz, Jacques Derrida, Jane Bennett, Jean Bodin, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Michel Foucault, Robert Filmer, The Birth of Territory, Thomas Hobbes | 2 Comments